I have a crazy amount of different jobs, so the way I manage that is to not do more than one at a time. Its like old computers that had small memory chips, they would do something called swapping, where they would fill the memory with one task, do it and get it out. – Louis C. K.

Spreadsheet: a kind of program that lets you sit at your desk and ask all kinds of neat “what if?” questions and generate thousands of numbers instead of actually working. – Dave Barry, Claw Your Way to the Top